* Volvo and Mitsubishi will fight for #1 - The Outlander PHEV was responsible for 50% of all plug-in sales here, while Volvo was Second with 21% share. Big difference;

* Somewhere between 15-19.000 units sold in the Dutch EV market - 15.270 sales, not a disappointment, but nothing to brag about...

Norway

* Close fight between the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S, VW e-Golf and Mitsu Outlander PHEV - The Leaf (7 times monthly Best-Seller) proved to be pretty resilient, resisting the Model S (3 times Best Seller) and the e-Golf (2 times) attacks and ending in the leadership, with 24% share, 4% ahead of the american car and double the sales of the e-Golf. As for the SUV, it was the best-selling PHEV, but only #6 in the ranking, plug-in hybrids still have a long way to go in Norway;

* Volkswagen will win the Manufacturers Title - Hit;

* EV Share between 12-14% in Norway - 13,93%, coming along the best expectations.

China

* BYD Qin #1 - Only Kandi could threaten the Qin leadership, and even then, it didn't scared too much;

* Somewhere between 23-28.000 units sold in the Dutch EV market - Some 60.000 units, the Big Forecast Miss Of The Year, did anyone saw this coming?

II. Engines of Growth

* By EV Share

One of them is pretty easy to discover, after all, the Norwegian EV performance is profusely documented (13,93% in '14 vs 6,10% in '13), but there were other surprises, like Sweden (1,66% in '14 vs 0,71% in '13) or Estonia (1,57% vs 0,68%). But the most impressive market is Iceland, with the EV Share in Iceland jumping from 0,21% in 2012, to 0,94% in '13, to 2,71 last year! With all the hydro-thermal energy they have and the small distances associated to an island, EV sales in Iceland should continue to grow exponentially and maybe become something like a Second Norway...

* By Volume

EV Share is important, but even more fundamental is the volume increase, and in this case China made all the headlines, with 40.000 more units being sold in 2014 than in the previous year...

The USA progress (A 20K increase) looks small by comparison, but it was still the Second largest, ahead of Norway (From 9 to 20K), and the surprising UK (4 to 14K!), even Germany progressed significantly, with an increase of Seven Thousand units.

Examining this, we can that Chevy Volt only resists in Canada, losing the USA for the Leaf, but the japanese hatch loses the UK and Australia for the Outlander PHEV, Mitsu's SUV also steals two of the three trophies the V60 (Sweden(!) and Finland), with the other (Belgium) being lost for Tesla, which also collected the Swiss #1, the Renault Zoe resisted in France and Austria, while the Twizy simply disappeared from the map. Finally, the BMW i3 has won its domestic market, while also collecting some secondary markets.

IV. Other Markets

For some reason (Low volumes, rare data, etc) some markets have been left-out, here is a chance to know some of them:

Israel: 6 Nissan Leaf sold in 2014, while last year, there had been 436 Renault Fluence ZE sold, as well as 24 Nissan Leaf. This market is the sole market where EV's are having a bad time.

Slovenia: Tesla Model S - 13(!) units; Opel Ampera (2); Peugeot iOn (1); BMW i3 (1). Brilliant performance by Tesla, something that Nicola Tesla would be proud of...The existing Tesla Supercharger in Slovenia should also help, of course. Anyway, 0.05% EV Share is how this small market currently stands, with talks that VW will finally join it, things could only get better in 2015!

Brazil: Renault Twizy - 34 units; BMW i3 (30). These are the first steps of a market with tremendous potential, will 2015 be the Year Zero?

Morocco: Renault Twizy - 35 units. Building on the 7 units registered in 2013, the french thingy is creating a small market for it here, maybe Renault should invest in promting the Twizy in warmer-climate countries, where the lack of real windows don't impact so much.